Researchers at the National Technical University of Athens required a system to help them monitor the shipwreck of a merchant ship near Peristera, one of
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The Peristera shipwreck is considered one of the most important in classical antiquity, due to its intact and large number of finds.
It was discovered in 1985 by a fisherman from Alonissos, near the western rocky coastline of Peristera, at a depth of 28 meters.
Characterised as the “Acropolis of shipwrecks”, the shipwreck is monitored by a network of underwater cameras.
And although “hidden” underwater, the state-of-the-art surveillance system “caught” the attention of US tech giant Microsoft.
To make Peristera Greece’s first underwater archeological museum, a team of Greek scientists created ‘NOUS‘- Undersea Vision Surveillance System.